Pargeting - Exterior plastering of a timber-framed building, usually modelled in design, e.g. vine pattern, foliage, figures.
PARGETING Plasterwork, incised or modelled with ornamental patterns, on a building's exterior walls.
PARGETING (lit. plastering): Exterior plaster decoration, either moulded in relief or incised.
PEDESTAL An architectural support or base, as for a column or statue.
PEDIMENT A low-pitched gable over porticos, doors, windows, etc.
Pargeting / Comb work
- originally a course plaster, now taken to refer to decorative plaster design either in relief or incised, applied to the exterior of buildings, usually to timber frames.
parging (pargeting) - to coat with plaster, particularly foundation walls and rough masonry (see stucco)
pediment - a triangular section, or gable end, often used above doors and windows or at porch entrances ...
Stucco might be molded or studded with stones or broken glass to emulate the pargeting found on old English dwellings.
PARGETING: ornamental plasterwork cladding. PEDIMENT: a low-pitched, ornamental gable, encountered in eighteenth century work in particular and used above a doorway or window. PENDANT: a elongated boss.
 See also: Parget, Timber, House, Classical, Ornament
  
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